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Q: who is this peddler who rides around saying and repeating the same sentence every day?
10 years 51 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
That would either be the recycle guy , the knife sharpener or the tofu guy if you hear happy birthday that is the water truck coming to wash the Sh%t and piss off the foot path
JustinF:
Actually, he doesn't really wash them off. He just uses the water to push them on the side. Then, when it rains, the liquidified mixture comes back on our pathway :）
Definitively, he is not a peddler. Most carry a piece of wood serrated in two parts with a hinge and continuously snaps them together at the end of whatever he is saying.
Funny, Brown, I love your subject liners with little substance. The voice you are hearing is a recording, the same voice used by peddlers all around China, it first caught my attention when I travelled around China in 2007 with my future wife, I told her I wanted to see the real China ,"hugh mistake", so we visited very low tier cities or the country side and I'd be damn, heard the same thing everywhere we went, the two pieces of wood, that is a rat and roach pesticide salesperson
Im crying right now, you know you have been here too long when you know the difference between village salespeople. 
Each one sells/buys/collects different things, but they all say the same shit.
EDIT it sounds like they all say the same sh@t if you don't speak much Chinese. If you can understand their local dialect, they are yelling different sh@t depending on what kinds of sh@t they wanna buy/ sell/ collect.
I don't know who he is, but I hear that same peddler guy you are speaking about outside my apartment almost everyday. He keeps yelling something. Almost sounds like a song. I can't even see where the guy is I just hear him all the time!
In my quiet, leafy neighborhood, minutes from the CBD action in QD, it's the recycle guy. No water trucks where I live - just heavily-dressed (quilted pjs and head kerchief), weathered oldies, pushing straw brooms in the street. My neighbors.
The recycle guy gets all my throwaways, from empty Tsingtao beer bottles to clothes I haven't worn in years. A dying trade along with the streetsweepers, bicycle blade runners, street corner barbers, and parading hookers. Well, maybe not the latter.
There's a time I confused his yelling, I heard like he was calling out my name. I quickly opened my apartment's window replying "...IM HERE..." . damn it was a prank call.
^ that guy would be your dad. He's looking for his long long child and the tofu, knife sharpening tool, and beer/plastic bottles are gifts that he brought for when he finally finds you.
Holy crap!
That guy gets around fast... he's seen more of China than I have!!!
This job is inherited, a traditional job. It goes back 4998 years. it is not really needed anymore but once was and the people got used to hearing this person. What he says is bring out your dead.
